Suspender-loop.



'No. 814,509. PATENTED MAR. 6, 1906.

G. W. BARTRUM. v I

SUSPENDBR LOOP.

APBLIOATION FILED NOV. 10, 1905.

UNITED CHARLES W. BARTRUM, OF NEWBURG PATENT OFFICE.

H, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO SWEET,

SUSPENDER-LOOP- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 6, 1906.

Application filed November 10,1905. Serial No. 286,712.

T0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. BAR- TRUM, a citizen of the United States, residing at N ewburgh, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Suspender- Loops, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a metallic loop for use, instead of a buttonholetab, on suspender-ends by means of which two adjacent buttons may be engaged without puckering the garment to which the buttons are attached or, in other words, so that the part of the garment on which the buttons are-placed may be kept straight and flat while in engagement with the loop.

The invention consists of a loop made of wire bent upon itself to form two buttonengaging cells, which have constricted entrances, said cells connected and rigidly spaced apart by an integral cross-bar, the side limbs of the loop being bent inwardly toward each other and the ends of the wire brought together and secured to form a crossbar above the inbent sides to be engaged by the suspender strap or webbing, the inbent sides preventing the accidental relative dislocation of the loop and suspender, all as I will now proceed more particularly to set forth and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is an elevation of the loop detached. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the loop applied to a suspender-end and in en agement with buttons on a band. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the loop detached and showing it applied to the button-shanks of buttons on a band, the heads of the buttons being removed.

The loop comprises two adjacent cell-like bends 1, having the constricted entrances 2 and the rigid connecting-bar member 3. The sides 4 of the loop are bent in at 5, and the ends of the wire of the loop are brought together above the inbends 5 to form a crossbar 6, these ends being united in any appropriate way, as by a sheet-metal sleeve 7 crimped thereon. The sides 4 are outwardly bowed beyond the entrances 2, so as to get the necessary resilience in drawing the cells over the shanks of the buttons and also to get sufiicient stiffness to keep the loop in shape under external strains in use. Such a loop is adapted to be attached to a suspender strap or webbing by looping its end 8 therethrough and beneath the cross-bar 6 and between said bar and the inbent portions 5 of the sides. The loop end of the suspender may be secured in an adjustable manner by means of a buckle 9. The inbent portions 5 serve to prevent the relative dislocation of the wire loop and the suspender strap or webbing.

The wire loop is adapted to engage the adjacent buttons 10, placed .upon any desired portion of a garment, as the band 11, by slipping its cells 1 under the button heads and into engagement with the shanks 12 of the buttons. When these shanks 12 are of greater diameter than the entrances 2 to the cells, the sides 4 yield after the manner of a spring, so as to permit the loop to be drawn up, and thereafter these sides spring back into place to prevent accidental disengagement of the cells from the buttons. The bar 3 preserves the relative location of the two cells, and the said bar, the sides 4, and the cells 1 serve to keep the fabric between the buttons perfectly straight and flat, thereby overcoming the possibility of the garment buckling between these cells. Thus the garment is kept in good shape and well fitted about the person of the wearer.

The loop is designed for use on aprons, overalls, trousers, and other garments held in place by suspenders or like devices.

I am aware that prior to this invention there have been devised various forms of single and double loops of wire for use in connection with various sorts of suspenders, and particularly that two-cell wire loops have been made a part of a buckle; but I am not aware that prior to this invention it has been proposed to constrict the entrances to the button-engaging cells, so as to prevent the accidental dislocation of the loop from the buttons, and, further, I am not aware that in such a double loop, adapted to be attached directly to the strap or webbing of a suspender, the sides have-been bent in so as to prevent relative dislocation of the loop and suspender.

What I claim is- As a new article of manufacture, the herein-described suspender-loop, composed of a wire bent upon itself to form adjacent cells,

having constricted entrances and arigid conmy hand this 8th day of November, A. D. neo'gomboutwardly-bowgd sidels1 havlilng ifi- 1905. War yent portions a ove t e as s, t e ends of the Wire being bent toward each CHARLES BARTRUM' 5 other to form a cross-bar and such ends Witnesses:

rigidly connected. F. H. KEToHAM,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set ROBT. MGNAIR. 

